What, I have often wondered, is the matter with Wiltshire
that so few people have written books about it? The question is prompted by the announcement that the Victoria County History, which has hitherto eschewed Wiltshire altogether, has now discovered the existence of that attractive county and is to include at least one volume on it ; the fact that Mr. G. M. Young is to be general editor means that the work is in the safest of hands. That will be some reparation for the neglect from which Wiltshire has so far suffered. I lately had occasion to enquire for a good book on Wiltshire—not a mere guidebook, but something on the " Highways and Byways " line. The county is indeed included in that well-known series, but the volume dealing with it is, I believe, long out of print. And there seems to be nothing else. It is high time that Wiltshire asserted itself.
Its five M.P.s might consider means of proclaiming its merits. * * * ' *
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